[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968) › c7.218 # Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.218 Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.218 - **Language:** English ### [c7.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.218) Here we come into contact with a powerful race of state-builders, nations endowed with a strong social instinct and at the same time exhibiting a force of individualism that makes us see the single man in his full personality. When asked for their chief, the Vikings of Rollo proudly answered: ‘We have no chief, we are all equals.’ In the same way the sagas of the north give the impression of a society made up of chiefs, of strong and independent individuals, and these men are not only warriors and wild barbarians, they are also jurists, refined poets, and artists.⁷ - [Previous: c7.217](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.217) - [Next: c7.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.219) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c7.218) · Pramāṇa